Longitudinal changes of motor cortical excitability and transcallosal inhibition after subcortical stroke

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 125, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2055-2069

  Takechi, Utako ^a   Matsunaga, Kaoru ^b   Nakanishi, Ryoji ^b   Yamanaga, Hiroaki ^b   Murayama, Nobuki ^c   Mafune, Kosuke ^d   Tsuji, Sadatoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b Kumamoto Kinoh Hospital   (Japan)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Intracortical inhibition; Motor evoked potential; Stroke; Transcallosal inhibition; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR CORTICAL EXCITABILITY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SCORING SYSTEM; SUBCORTICAL STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VERY ELDERLY; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; PROGNOSIS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84927176478     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2014.01.034     Document Type: Article

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